that the person who appointed u.s. attorney general david weiss to handle the matter that we re here to discuss today was donald trump. but this would be the same president, donald trump, that the man twice impeach for abuses of power and of course recently indicted for 37 counts of criminal activity. now one would think that here in oversight committee, we would want to investigate such blatant acts of criminal activity. i could not agree more with our witness, mr. shapley, that there should not be a two tiered system of justice for those that are powerful and those wealthy and those that are not. that is not actually what the the hearing is about here today. it s clear that this is yet another attempt by the majority to turn this committee in to another inkind donation to the trump campaign. this follows on an earlier attempt this past month to
that was ten years ago. in fiscal year 2020, the irs only audited 11,000 millionaire returns. only about 7,100 of those returns were audited by new agents that are the most highly qualified auditors. can we have a hearing? i think this is something that we can all get behind. have a hearing about billionaires and big corporations at large scale, potentially getting away from the latest reports, we re talking about 160 billion in incollected taxes. i d like to see whether there might be interest from anybody on the other side of the aisle on us having that kind of a hearing. any interest? really, i have over a minute of time. mr. sessions, that would be great. that would be a good hearing for us to. we want everybody to follow the law. i agree. with that i yield back my time to the ranking member. yield to the gentleman from new york.
for five minutes. garcia for five minutes. sorry. thank you, mr. chairman. so let s first zero in on the bottom line. what we have is two irs investigators that clearly worked very hard on the hunter biden investigation. thanks for being here today. you both gave recommendations to prosecutors based on your work, which you have described today. and then donald trump s hand picked prosecutor then made recommendations to charge hunter. he acted independently, he himself has confirmed this. you did your job making recommendations. the prosecutor did his job. you continue have to agree with his conclusions. but that s the bottom line of what we have today at this hearing. but today s hearing is like most of the majorities investigations and hearings. a lot of allegations, zero proof. no receipts. but apparently some dick picks.
they re saying it s always been a nonconcur? she said what? no. i sent a yellow light, which is a concur. so that was the issue with ct counsel that really perplexed me. that s something that i wanted to add to the congressman back there. thanks for the extra time. thank you. i just wanted to with regard to what happened in central park years ago. the mischaracterization of what happened there is i m sure very hurtful and harmful to the central park jogger. i wouldn t you have there s more to that story. thank you. very good. at the request of the witnesses, we re going to take two more questions and then we ll have another ten minute recess. so recognize mr. kosar for five minutes. it s clear from this hearing
this is totally unfair and i think it s very important that we get to the bottom of this investigation and find out who has been obstructing this sense of justice. the american people demand justice. this committee demands justice along with the other committees inv involved. i thank you for your hearing. chair recognizes mrs. stansbury from new mexico. thank you. i d like to get right in to some basic vetting questions. unfortunately, our colleagues across the aisle with some of the previous witnesses that they called. so mr. zeigler, mr. shapley, i m hoping that these are very simple, very straightforward questions. so i d like to ask that you answer them with a yes or no answer. mr. shapley, are you now or have you ever acted as an unregistered foreign agent for the chinese government or for any other government?